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Ewha Takes the Lead in the Nurturing of Climate-tech Entrepreneurs in Partnership with the Asan Nanum Foundation
Ewha Takes the Lead in the Nurturing of Climate-tech Entrepreneurs in Partnership with the Asan Nanum Foundation Ewha Womans University and the Asan Nanum Foundation signed an agreement for Ewha-Asan UniverCT (University x Climate Tech), a climate-tech entrepreneur nurturing project, at Pfeiffer Hall on February 27, 2024 (Tue.). Based on this agreement, Ewha will take the lead in fostering young climate-tech entrepreneurs in partnership with the Asan Nanum Foundation. The Asan UniverCT program (the name “UniverCT” is a portmanteau of “university” and the initials for “climate tech”) has been conducted by the Asan Nanum Foundation since 2023 with the aim of spreading the culture of climate-tech startups among universities amid the intensifying climate crisis, while nurturing climate-tech entrepreneurs possessing innovative technology, business competency, and entrepreneurship. “Climate tech” refers to all technologies used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change concerns, a field that is recently emerging as a promising future-oriented technological sector that will be highly pertinent in the coming decade. This year, Ewha has been newly selected as a partner university for the program’s second year along with KAIST, following the previous year in which Seoul National University and Yonsei University participated. The Support Corps for Business Startups at Ewha, and 15 faculty members from the Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering and the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering will participate in the program, which is set to receive a total of KRW 1 billion over the next two years. Under the program, Ewha will install a climate-tech startup track in the undergraduate school and prepare a climate-tech startup design system and a scholarship fund in the graduate school, in order to raise students’ awareness of the climate crisis and attract students’ interest in climate-tech startups. Ewha has been advancing education and research in the field of climate and environment under the vision of the “Creative and Innovative Platform That Leads the Sustainable Society,” endeavoring to contribute to the sustainable development of humanity. As a leading institution in climate change research, the school established the Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering in 2017 and has been conducting world-class research through the Center for Climate/Environment Change Prediction, a priority research institute in science and engineering, and developed a global climate risk management model in collaboration with the Financial Supervisory Service. Under the Ewha-Asan agreement, Ewha is expected to foster outstanding prospective entrepreneurs based on its top-quality education and research, thereby leading the climate-tech industry and actively fulfilling its ESG responsibilities.
Ewha and Harvard Discuss Stronger International Cooperation
Ewha and Harvard Discuss Stronger International Cooperation A Harvard University delegation visited Ewha Womans University on March 26, 2024 (Fri.) to discuss measures for further collaboration between Ewha and Harvard. To this end, the delegation led by Mark C. Elliott, the Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University, engaged in a meeting with President Eun Mee Kim at Pfeiffer Hall. The two discussed various ways for Ewha and Harvard Medical Schools to collaborate, highlighting the fruitful partnership between the two schools to date. In addition, Professor Arlene Sharpe at Harvard Medical School gave a special lecture at Emerson Chapel in Case Hall on the same day at 5 p.m. The lecture was arranged as part of efforts to enhance exchanges and cooperation between Ewha and Harvard Medical Schools, as well as to offer students who are pursuing careers in biology an opportunity to learn more about research undertaken by a world-class scholar. Professor Sharpe is a Kolokotrones University Professor, the highest title bestowed by Harvard upon its distinguished professors. She is a leading immunologist who has laid the foundation for cancer immunotherapy by discovering the functions of T cell pathways, including the immunoinhibitory functions of the CTLA-4 and PD-1 pathways. Professor Sharpe’s lecture was made all the more lively by a large audience of students who filled the first and second floors of Emerson Chapel, as well as their active participation in the Q&A session afterward. The special lecture was followed by a dinner banquet, where select Ewha faculty members with similar research interests as members of the Harvard University delegation were invited as a networking opportunity. During the event, both parties reaffirmed their commitment to enhancing the partnership between Ewha and Harvard in various areas. Ewha remains Harvard’s sole partner university in Korea. The partnership between Ewha and Harvard has continued for nearly twenty years, since the two schools co-hosted the Ewha Harvard Summer School Program in 2006 and the Ewha-Harvard Undergraduates in Asia Program (HUAP) in 2007. Throughout this partnership, the two schools have continued active exchanges in many areas, such as the Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholars Program for faculty members in the humanities and social sciences, Harvard Model Congress Asia, and a joint concert with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
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